Water availability is fundamental to crop production, and in the last few years farmers have seen widely varying degrees of moisture available during the growing season – both too much and too little.

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A new Coordinated Research Project has been launched to develop Climate-Smart Agricultural practices to manage and restore salt-affected soils in agricultural land. The IAEA, through the Joint ...

Crop Tour is a fact-finding mission with a goal of getting a strong, objective view of corn yield potential from one big field across the seven states we sample during the third full week of August.

To harness the power of the sun and make sugars for energy storage, plants use photosynthesis. But some plants are more efficient at it than others. For the first time, researchers have identified a ...

“Cotton is one of our number one row crops,” said Anthony Black, superintendent of the Southeast Research and Education ...

Adaptation can't outrun climate change, and rich farming nations — including the U.S. — face jeopardy despite their resources, according to a major new paper on global warming and crop production. Why ...